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Where does the name "Pickleball" come from?

The popular story told today is that the inventors of the game owned a dog called Pickles. As the story is told, the wiffle ball belonged to the dog. Whenever an errant shot happened, Pickles would run and try to get the ball and hide it. They named the game for their dog’s ball, “Pickles’ Ball”, then it became Pickleball.

The truth is, the Pritchard family didn't get the dog until 1967, so actually, the dog was named after the sport. Joan Pritchard corrected this story in interviews but the story persists.

According to Joan, the game was so heavily based on other games it reminded her of a pickle boat crew, "where oarsmen were chosen from the leftovers of other boats".